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Sequential Circuits - Definition and Overview |
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Sequential Circuits was a synthesizer company that was founded in 1978 and sold to Yamaha Corporation in 1987.
The first synthesizer they came out with was the very sucessful Prophet 5. This was the first fully programmable polyphonic synthesizer, and became the synthesizer to have in the early 1980s.
This company was also instrumental in developing the MIDI specification, and came out with the first MIDI synthesizer: The Prophet 600.
They came out with two drum machines: The Drumtraks and the Tom
In 1985/86, they came out with the Prophet 2000 sampler, and the Prophet VS vector synthesizer also this was the only digital synth made by SCI.
The last musical instrument that they commercially released was the Studio 440. This $5000 unit looked like a drum machine; and combined a sampler and a sequencer to make a music composition workstation.
They were working on the Prophet 3000 16-bit sampler in 1987 before going out of business and being bought out by Yamaha.
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